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California Wildfires: Live Fire Map

119
Active fires
34K
Acres
1
Under 50% contained
37
Typical air quality · worst 114 near Ukiah Library
Current situation

California

Critical
Large fires (1K+)
2
New fires (48h)
26
Dispatch reports (24h)
116
Evac zones
8
NWS alerts
1
County emergency managers currently have 8 zones under Evacuation Orders in Tulare County. Only 45 of California's 58 counties have a live evacuation feed right now, so orders or warnings in the other 13 appear here only when Cal OES's statewide layer carries them. See which counties are covered below.
California currently has 119 active wildfires burning a combined 34,000 acres. 2 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Timber fire in Monterey County at 25,350 acres, 100% contained. 26 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours. Dispatch centers have logged 116 new fire reports in California in the last 24 hours (5 treated as wildfires, 6 smoke checks, 105 roadside reports via CHP), typically minutes after the first 911 call.
The National Weather Service has 1 Wind Advisory in effect covering parts of the state. Typical air quality across the state's 197 monitoring stations is good (AQI 37); the worst reading right now is AQI 114 (unhealthy for sensitive groups) near Ukiah Library.

Bold outline: California boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in California

Live evacuation feed coverage
45of 58 counties
Partial coverage

Orders and warnings in the 13 counties without a feed appear on FireNearby only when Cal OES's statewide layer carries them, and not every county posts there. If you live in one, follow that county's official emergency channels.

No live feed13
  • Alpine
  • Amador
  • Colusa
  • El Dorado
  • Glenn
  • Imperial
  • Kings
  • Merced
  • Sacramento
  • San Benito
  • San Francisco
  • San Joaquin
  • Stanislaus
Live feed45
  • Alameda
  • Butte
  • Calaveras
  • Contra Costa
  • Del Norte
  • Fresno
  • Humboldt
  • Inyo
  • Kern
  • Lake
  • Lassen
  • Los Angeles
  • Madera
  • Marin
  • Mariposa
  • Mendocino
  • Modoc
  • Mono
  • Monterey
  • Napa
  • Nevada
  • Orange
  • Placer
  • Plumas
12 official sources, checked every 5 minutes
  • CAL FIRE / Cal OES
  • Orange County Emergency Operations Center
  • Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management
  • City of Santa Rosa Emergency Operations Center
  • Placer County Sheriff's Office
  • Tuolumne County Office of Emergency Services
  • Mariposa County Office of Emergency Services
  • San Bernardino County Office of Emergency Services
  • Ventura County Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services
  • Butte County Sheriff's Office
  • Fresno County Sheriff's Office
  • San Luis Obispo County Office of Emergency Services

Active zones 9

If you are in a zone under an order, leave now and follow official instructions.

  • OrderPVL-E042Tulare County
  • OrderPVL-E044Tulare County
  • OrderPVL-E038Tulare County
  • OrderPVL-E032Tulare County
  • OrderPVL-E036Tulare County
  • OrderPVL-E039Tulare County

Every zone is also shaded on the map above. Zone codes are the official identifiers county emergency managers use in alerts. To check a specific address, use the fire-near-me search on the homepage.

1 active weather alert
Wind Advisoryuntil Nov 12, 12:15 AM

Wind Advisory issued November 10 at 12:03PM PST until November 13 at 7:00PM PST by NWS Sacramento CA

South-Central Shasta County Including Redding Metro; Northern Sacramento Valley in Tehama County; Central Glenn County Including Interstate 5; Eastern Glenn Cou…

See active alerts at weather.gov

Source: National Weather Service. Alerts open the official NWS record.

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This season vs the last decade

24% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 2026311K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)1.3M acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)1.3M acres

So far in 2026, 311K acres have burned in California, 24% of the 1.3M acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 1.3M acres.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Fires that cross a state line are split by their mapped perimeter.

Active fires in California

Latest fire updates in California

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. Rainbow 6 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR605)

    37 min ago · November 11, 2026
  2. MTZ/SDU/RAINBOW6 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR605)

    37 min ago · November 11, 2026
  3. Mountaineer Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR89, CFR88)

    5 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  4. Oak Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N604PG, CFR93, CFR210)

    5 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  5. LAC-406124 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  6. LAC-406080 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  7. LAC-405512 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  8. LAC-404865 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  9. LAC-403588 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  10. LAC-403366 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  11. LAC-402436 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  12. LAC-401094 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026

Wildfire history in California

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2020
Worst year · 4.7M acres
8,291
Fires / year · average
108K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
67K
Structures destroyed
286
Lives lost
$13.3B
Reported cost

From 3,233 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
4.7M
2.3M
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
486K
243K
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July and August account for 73% of the acreage burned in California in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
7.0K14K2014: 2.1K fires20142015: 2.6K fires2016: 1.7K fires20162017: 4.7K fires2018: 4.0K fires20182019: 5.9K fires2020: 10K fires20202021: 12K fires2022: 14K fires20222023: 14K fires2024: 14K fires20242025: 13K fires2026: 9.1K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, California averaged 487K acres burned and 13K fires per year. That is 70% down in acreage and 133% up in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Recent seasons have been quieter than the long-term norm.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in California? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Largest fires on record in California

  • August Complex2020446 structures destroyed · 1 death1,032,648 acres
  • Dixie2021963,309 acres
  • Mendocino Complex2018280 structures destroyed · 1 death459,123 acres
  • Park2024429,603 acres
  • Scu Lightning Complex2020224 structures destroyed396,624 acres

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